The UMass Amherst Arts Extension Service has launched an Arts Entrepreneurship Initiative aimed helping UMass Amherst students, as well as artists throughout the greater Pioneer Valley, gain the skills and support needed to develop thriving arts careers or arts-based businesses.

UMass trustees formally launched the system’s search for a new president today by creating a Search Committee described as “distinguished and diverse” and by pledging to find “an outstanding new leader for the University system that means so much to the Commonwealth and its people.”

Robert M. Goodhue, University of Massachusetts Foundation chief operating officer and general counsel, will serve as interim director during the search. John Kennedy, vice chancellor for university relations, will chair the search committee.

Professor Mari Castañeda of the department of communication has been appointed as the first Chancellor’s Leadership Fellow, effective at the beginning of the spring semester.
Castañeda will be mentored by John McCarthy, dean of the Graduate School, where she will be developing...

Janet Fink, professor in the Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management in the Isenberg School of Management, has been named the recipient of the 2015 Earle F. Zeigler Lecture Award by the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM).
The Zeigler Award, the most prestigious award...

“The Politics of Migration: Gender, Sexuality and Citizenship” is the focus of the women, gender, sexuality studies department’s spring conference on Feb. 26-27 in the Campus Center.
The crisis of Central American child migrants to the United States, brought to public attention...

Adobe representatives are coming to campus on Wednesday, Feb. 11 to provide free training and information sessions on Adobe products. They will provide an overview of many of the new features and workflows available in Adobe Creative Cloud (CC), Adobe’s latest suite of software for graphic...

Professor John Baugh of Washington University in St. Louis, a finalist for dean of Commonwealth Honors College, will give a presentation to the campus community on Thursday, Feb. 5 at 4 p.m. in 174-76 Campus Center and will be available for questions until 5:15 p.m.
Baugh is Margaret Bush Wilson...

More than 1,000 staff, faculty and administrators are taking an online training program this month to help them understand their responsibilities under two federal laws: Title IX and the Clery Act.
Title IX requires federally funded educational institutions to prohibit discrimination on the basis...